May 2008
Los Angeles Permaculture Guild Newsletter

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Que pasa,

Feel free to repost this newsletter wherever appropriate and submit related needs, surplus, events and articles, videos, pictures and announcements. Community input is always encouraged and appreciated . . .

Thanks,

Taylor Arneson
taylorist@gmail.com
taylorist.googlepages.com


ARTICLES OF INTEREST

-- Michael Pollan on the Revolutionary Act of Gardening
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_11675.cfm

-- For South L.A. farmers, a new setting for their plots
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-buttonwillow28apr28,1,473987.story

-- Nuns embrace restoring connection with nature
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/ci_9037610


(NEW) VIDEOS

-- Seedballs
http://crackle.com/play/?id=1590094#ml=fcx%3D210%26fk%3Dpermaculture%26fx%3D%26o%3D7

-- Urban Permaculture
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qpyocn1Vc5U

-- Worm Tower
http://youtube.com/watch?v=scUTrypzyY0&feature=related

NEEDS AND REQUESTS

The Watt's Family Garden Club
( http://www.wattsgardenclub.org/)
and
"The Seed Lady" aka Anna Marie Carter
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=576
are looking for................
Primarily we are looking for CASH and volunteers.
We need self motivated, self initiating, responsible people to help with various aspects of several different projects. People who have experience or skills as grant writers, researchers, marketers and community organizers would be most desirable. Please contact: Camille Cimino
camcim@yahoo.com
(213) 924-5238

-- Swan Song for the Lawn -Volunteers Needed -Ongoing starting in February '08
Help convert resource consuming lawns in and around Los Angeles into productive Fruit, Fuel, Food, Fiber and Medicine Producing Home Ecosystems! No experience necessary.
Contact us at info@earthflow.com

-- Accommodations Needed -Los Angeles -Ongoing
Larry Santoyo, Permaculture Designer, Teacher seeks private studio/guesthouse accommodations for frequent visits in and around downtown Los Angeles, Silverlake and Santa Monica Areas -Will trade for permaculture consulting, design and/or workshops.

-- I am always looking for people, M-F, who would like to volunteer working on permaculture projects at a home in Malibu.  Projects involve pruning, planting, mulching, propagation, water harvesting techniques, compost making, caring for chickens, light straw claw and earthen plaster, herb spirals, and more.  Anyone interested can contact me at swjennings@gmail.com Also, looking to build up the LAPCGuild wiki with profiles of people doing permaculture related activities in this city, so please submit anything you got, pictures, stories,  to swjennings@gmail.com

-- Eco Home needs help with promoting their tours - The number of visitors has decreased recently and they are exploring new opportunities to spread the word. Contact Dianne Carter at dcarterpr@earthlink.net. More about Eco Home / www.ecohome.org/pages/index.html


-- EMANATE needs monetary and material donations for their installations. All donations are tax-deductible. Contact jenna@emanate.org or 323.913.0915. www.emanate.org



SURPLUS

-- Bicycles for sale!
* fixed gear, raleigh women's road bike conversion, all new 700c rims and tires, good seat, bull horn bars, no lights or brakes - $ 300
* three wheeled adult (trike) beach cruiser style, coaster and front brakes, ape hangers, basket, needs new tubes and tires - $ 300
* brand new lollapolloza element skateboard made of bamboo limited edition, 7.5w, 52mm wheels - $100


-- Be part of every permaculture function there is in our newly acquired land in Venice, CA. We have a 55'x300' space a few minutes from the ocean in a very good growing zone with space available to rent or build your own natural space. We are needing strictly permaculture people to build a living modelthat will provide answers for our cities many problems. We need your skills and enthusiasm to be part of something very special.
 contact: Bobby 310-466-9600
 Must see!!

-- Earthflow Design Works offers the following products, services and skills: Permaculture Land Planning and Design -Training and Services; Jewelry Designs; Clothing Designs. Graphic Design & Photography. See www.earthflow.com for more info

-- We have Potted (1 to 5 gal) Garden Plants -Will trade for Avocados, Bamboo and/or ???
-Achira, edible canna
-Opuntia, spineless fruiting cactus
-Yacon, sweet, crunchy tubers
Contact: Larry & Kathryn Santoyo <info@earthflow.com> 805.459.0452

-- Available for pre-purchase!  Quail Springs, An Experiment in Permaculture by Joss Jaffe, is an important research and development tool supporting permaculture design and the long term vision of Quail Springs. Pre-purchase the book by contacting info@quailsprings.org.  $30 includes CD, or $10 for CD only, plus $5 shipping.

-- Hopedance offer: For $250 Hopedance Magazine will give you a full page to do what you want (listings, calendars, ads, articles, art, etc.) plus you get 1,000 copies of hopedance to do what you want. The page would be inside the regular issue of HopeDance. The next issue is on Relocalization.  Bob Banner 805 544 9663 www.hopedance.org

-- Path to Freedom's Peddlers Wagon http://pathtofreedom.com/peddlerswagon/ - Practical goods for your home and garden, including ollas, solar ovens, bike trailers and more. From the wonderful Dervaes family homestead.


-- Compost - Tim Dundon 626-794-1351 theroyalsoil@2doo.com www.2doo.com Tim is the King of Compost. He will deliver a huge dumptruck of horse manure and sawdust for 80.00 to your hungry soil. He might offer you some sage philosophy for free while he's at it.

-- Cob-a-nation with Ray Cirino! Ray is THE guy for cob in Los Angeles. His beautiful ovens, benches and other structures can be seen at LA Eco-Village, Path to Freedom and many private residences around the city. Check out his new cob playhouses! He also builds rocket stoves and welds amazing trellises. Hire him to lead a workshop or build something for you. email cobanation@yahoo.com

ACTIVISM / ACTIONISM

-- TAKE ACTION ON FARM BILL
The deadline on the 2007--Now 2008--Farm Bill has been a moving target, but the conference committee is currently set to conclude its work soon. We need as many e-mails as soon as possible to urge Congress to pass a Farm Bill that increases funding for organic, transition to organic, and nutrition programs, rather than simply more subsidies for corporate welfare and biofuels.. Please click here to take action now: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24318

-- Help Save the L.A. Eco-Village from the L.A. Unified School District
After a heated battle at the community meetings, LAUSD has chosen another site close by, but they still intend to put a large parking lot where the elementary school used to be, right in the heart of the LA Ecovillage
 See the following websites for details:
http://laecovillage.org/

-- Save the Whittier Narrows Natural Area!
 The Discovery Center Authority development is the first project to remake the 419 acre Whittier Narrows Natural area into a synthetic one. Visit naturalareafriends.net for more info. Friends of the Whittier Narrows Natural Area. 626 286 3850 info@naturalareafriends.net

-- California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008 needs help in signature gathering: <www.jackherer.com> & < www.calhemp08.org>.

-- Petition Agri Fuel Incentives for Monsanto and other GMO corporations
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/oca/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=895

WORKPARTIES, POTLUCKS, CLASSES AND EVENTS

-- Wed April 30th 11–11:30 am Federal Building lot, 11000 Wilshire Blvd. LA 90024
Meet in Southwest corner of Parking Lot, near Rochester Ave. to pick up your HazMat suit (or email to make prior arrangements)
12:00 NOON 'Clean-Up' Action begins in front of Oxy Building,
10889 Wilshire Blvd. LA 90024 (corner of Westwood Blvd)
What: "Clean-Up" Action – B.Y.O.B. We provide HazMat suits; you bring your
own broom or mop! Occidental Petroleum World Headquarters in Westwood
10889 Wilshire Blvd. L.A. 90024

-- Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:00pm - 7:30pm Edgecliffe and Sunset - triangle park
Fallen Fruit is organizing this year's Nocturnal Fruit Forage 2008 in honor of the Loquat. It would be great if you could post the information to help spread the word to Angelenos. We do a tour every year at this time. It would be great to have you come along. If you have any questions. We meet a lot of residents when we stop in front of their houses with flashlights, shopping carts, bags and fruit pickers. They are usually happy to see us and offer to let us pick more fruit inside their properties. Its rare, at least in LA, to find people who actually use much or even any of the fruit growing on their properties.
Please let us know if you are planning to attend info@fallenfruit.org.

-- Friday May 2nd  9 am – 10:30 am
RALLY at Oxy Annual SHAREHOLDERS' MEETING with Achuar Leaders
"Oxy Annual Shareholders Meeting" Press Conference
Fairmont Hotel – sidewalk on Ocean Ave.
 101 Wilshire Blvd. @ Ocean Ave. Santa Monica 90401

-- Saturday, May 3rd 10am - 4pm $35!
RAINWATER CATCHMENT: TURNING THE BAY'S #1 POLLUTER INTO A #1 RESOURCE Jenna Didier, Director of Materials & Applications and Principal of Fountainhead Water Systems Design, Dr. Bill Roley, applied ecologist, environmental instructor and watershed planner, 10am - noon: Dr. Bill Roley, Full Circle Water Planning with Community Participation 1pm - 4pm : Jenna will lead a hands-on installation of a rainwater catchment system, including review of rain water fountains and irrigations systems.

-- Saturday, May 3rd from 10:30am - 1pm
 Tours of Los Angeles Eco-Village
 Learn the history, context, accomplishments, pitfalls, transitions, plans and visions for this two block central city demonstration ecovillage neighborhood-in-process and its intentional community.
Fee: $10 (sliding scale available). Reservations required, contact crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254.


-- Saturday, May 10th 10am - 4pm  $35!
GREEN ROOFS AND BEYOND: GREENING ARCHITECTURE TO SLOW AND ABSORB STORMWATER
Freya Bardell, Director of GreenMeme
Brent Bucknam, Principal of Hyphae, Director of Living Architecture for Rana Creek
Dr. Bill Roley, applied ecologist, environmental instructor and watershed planner
10am - noon: Dr. Bill Roley, Full Circle Water Planning with Community Participation 1pm - 4pm : Freya Bardell will lead a workshop on slowing storm-water and cooling structures through integrated systems of green roofs, living walls and storm-water-planters.

-- Saturday, May 10, 2008, 9:30am - 3pm 5621 Montemalaga Drive $5
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
The South Bay Energy Fair will feature, on site:
Bicycles as cargo vehicles
Electric cars
Multiple public transit advocacy groups
Local biodiesel purchasing
Solar energy installers
Energy-saving appliances & home retrofits
Ultra fuel-efficient motorscooters
Alternative Fuel Smackdown debate
Green Fashion Show
Independent film release
Link    www.southbayenergyfair.com

-- Sunday, May 11 from 10:30am - 1pm
 Tours of Los Angeles Eco-Village
 Learn the history, context, accomplishments, pitfalls, transitions, plans and visions for this two block central city demonstration ecovillage neighborhood-in-process and its intentional community.
Fee: $10 (sliding scale available). Reservations required, contact crsp@igc.org or 213/738-1254.

-- Friday, May 16 at 7:30pm and Saturday, May 17 from 8:30am – 5pm
A Taste of Permaculture: Hands-On Workshop
In this workshop, you will be introduced to the permaculture principles and ethics while gaining some hands-on experience in soils and gardening, orcharding, and seedball making. Permaculture Principles, Ethics, and Zones with Tyrone LaFay
Three 90-minute rotating hands-on workshops on
- Soils & Gardening with Brad Mowers
- Orcharding with George Patton
- Seedball making with Yuki Kidokoro
Course Fee: $115. Pre-registration required by May 13, alirosenblatt@gmail.com or 213/738-1254

-- Saturday, May 17th 10am - 4pm $35!
LANDSCAPING STRATEGIES FOR PARKING LOTS AND DRIVEWAYS
Glen Dake, Director of Glen Dake Landscape Architecture and former Green Deputy of Council District 13 Guest speakers TBA Schedule TBA Glen will lead hands-on installation instruction of permeable pavement, swales and filter strips.

-- Tuesday, May 20th, @ 7pm Santa Monica Main Library, Community Room
Come Join us for the first of a series of monthly meetings to discuss Permaculture and how we can apply it within our urban community.
We will use these meetings to begin to build a community of local citizens interested in bringing about real sustainable change in the
neighborhoods that we live in.  We are looking for permaculturists, gardeners, activists, teachers, environmentalists, city officials, parents, children, students, etc.  All are welcome.  We can change the world with our own two hands, let's start by changing our community together.For more information or if you would like to become more involved please send an email to: swjennings@gmail.com
The Santa Monica Main Library is located at 601 Santa Monica Boulevard, Santa Monica, CA 90401 (310) 458-8600

-- Saturday, May 24th Location TBA noon - 5pm
Fruit drying and sorbet workshop
Learn different techniques to build simple drying boxes and make sorbet from fruit collected in your neighborhood. We will walk to go pick loquats, plums and apricots, learn local history, climate and soils and agriculture as we walk through a neighborhood and take snacks and drying boxes home for a materials fee of $ 20
 Sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds. RSVP to: taylorist@gmail.com

-- Saturday and Sunday, May 24-25 ~ Building a Cob Oven and Baking Bread
with Quail Springs' teaching team $100 for each 2 day Skill Builder workshop, includes camping.
Register for the entire "Hands and Hearts" series for 2008 for $275 !
Optional materials fee may apply for each workshop. Meals will be organized potluck.
Contact info@quailsprings.org for more information or to register.


-- Saturday, May 31 and Sunday, June 1, from 10am-5pm
Weekend Gardening Workshop with Brad Mowers
Gain hands-on experience in all of the aspects of growing your own food.  In this weekend workshop we will learn about soils, plant seedlings, how to harvest fruits and vegetables, and compost their waste, closing the cycle. 
Specific topics covered will include:
- Soil health
- Seed starting
- Buying plants from the nursery
- Vegetable planting charts
- Putting plants in the ground and caring for them
- Growing in pots for apartment dwellers
- Inter-planting and biodiversity
- Plant culture and how to deal with insects
- Watering
- Wild plants such as lambs' quarter, amaranth, dandelion and nettles
- Composting
This class is for beginning gardeners as well as those who would like a refresher course for review and more information. Participants will go away with a well-rounded palette of information to start on their summer gardens.
Course Fee: $125. Pre-registration required by May 23, alirosenblatt@gmail.com or 213/738-1254.

PERMACULTURE COURSES:

-- April 20 - May 3, 2008
In cooperation with Four Elements Organic Farm, HopeDance Media & The Terra Foundation: Four Elements Permaculture Design Course San Luis Obispo County,   Permaculture Design Certificate Course Two-Week Intensive
Amazing Location... The site for this course is  Four Elements Organic Farm, a certified Organic Farm and an innovative Natural Building Learning Center nestled in the steep chaparral hills of California's Central Coast.
  http://earthflow.com/slo2008.php


-Santa Cruz, CA - Third Weekends of each Month, Feb-July
-San Luis Obispo, CA - Two-Week Intensive April 20- May 3, 2008
-New York City Open Center  -3Day CityPermaculture Strategies Workshop - April
-Woodbourne, Catskills, New York - Two-Week Intensive August 16-29, 2008
-Los Angeles, CA - First Weekends of each Month, Oct '08 - March '09
-Aveyron Region, France  - Permaculture Highlights & Historical Preservation Tour
 More Hands-On WorkParties - Natural building and "the home ecosystem" design on California's Central Coast and the Southland.

• Trades, Work-Trades and Payment Plans now available
• Teachers are also eligible for special Scholarship Discounts

http://earthflow.com/

--  February through July 2008
The Santa Barbara Permaculture Design Course Experience
Creating The Conditions for Sustainability to Happen...
February through July 2008.
One weekend a month for 6 months...
Join us on the second weekends of February through July 2008.
Locations will take us in and around Santa Barbara Co.





UPCOMING IN THE SUMMER

-- The Next Natural Building Workshop:
Edendale Farm in Silver Lake
Designing & Building an Outdoor Kitchen and Entertainment Space
One of the advantages of living in Sunny Southern California is enjoying the outdoors, yet very few are eating or cooking outside daily.
This hands-on workshop will use permaculture design and natural building skills to complete a beautiful space that is functional, economical and sustainable.
Starts at 9:00AM- 4:00 PM  Saturdays.
Part One    * Site and Kitchen Design
                    * Earthen Oven Theory & Techniques
Space is limited RSVP Special Workshop, Children are welcome contact: info@sustainablehabitats.org


-- Tuesday, June 3 from 6-9pm
Creating a LETSystem in your neighborhood with Alison Rosenblatt
 Alison has been researching local currencies since her arrival in L.A. Eco-Village in February.  She is engaged in testing and honing the emerging LETSystem in LAEV.  The LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) is a local currency system used throughout the world.  Come learn how you can make it happen in your neighborhood.
 Fee: $10 donation suggested.  No one turned away for lack of funds
Reservations required, contact Alison Rosenblatt at alirosenblatt@gmail.com or 213/738-1254.

-- Saturday, June 14 from 9am-5pm
Water Catchment with Swales
Taught by Joe Linton, author of "Down by the L.A. River"
Check our website, www.laecovillage.org, for more details, coming soon.

-- It's time to register for a brand new series of organic gardening classes. I'm really excited about them. Get the details by going straight to the registration page here: www.silverlakefarms.com/workshops.htm

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-- Saturday and Sunday, May 24-25 ~ Building a Cob Oven and Baking Bread
with Quail Springs' teaching team $100 for each 2 day Skill Builder workshop, includes camping. Register for the entire "Hands and Hearts" series for 2008 for $275 Optional materials fee may apply for each workshop. Meals will be organized potluck.Contact info@quailsprings.org for more information or to register.


ONGOING CLASSES AND EVENTS

-- Monthy meeting for LAMS Los Angeles Mytological Society are held at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, come at 7:00pm to have mushroom photos and samples identified, and 8:00pm for a lecture. Check the website for upcoming dates. . . . lamushrooms.com

-- Saturdays at 10 am multiple locatoins check website :
  http://www.christophernyerges.com/schedule.htm
Christopher Nyerges leads walks in the San Gabriel mountains teaching skills ranging from weapon making to wild salad harvesting

-- 4th Tuesday of the month, Beekeepers Association of Southern California 7:30 PM at the Kling Center, 12900 Blue Field Avenue, La Mirada, CA  90638
Come to meet people who actually keep bees in the Southern California area and talk about colony collapse disorder     Contact: Mark Hoppe (562) 841-9754 mhpower@quixnet.net
 
-- Sundays and Thursdays 2-7pm (come anytime you can)
Food Not Bombs is organized according to anarchist principles of non-hierarchy and decentralization. We take food that would otherwise be thrown away and make healthy, vegan meals for the hungry. We cook in the Sunset Junction area of Silver Lake as well as Highland Park and serve our delicious vegetarian food every Thursday and Sunday in Downtown Los Angeles. Join us!
< http://lafoodnotbombs.org/ >

---- Food forest work days and plant sale in Sunland:  Come see our food forest, get your hands dirty in our beautiful, rich soils and hug our fruit trees!  Get a smell and taste tour of the forest.  We have community projects, grow your own in our garden. We have lots of fun, exotic fruit trees and other plants and an heirloom veggie patch.  Get a taste of our collards, salad mix, figs, etc, hang out with great people, and hear the stories behind the forest.   Every Sunday from 1-4.   7919 Glenties Lane, Sunland.   We are looking for someone who would like to run the work days for a couple of months while I am out of town - please let me know if you are interested!   This is a great community spot in Sunland. We may move to AM's if it is hot, so please write cory8570@yahoo.com  to confirm schedule...

-- Tours of the Eco-Home™ environmental demonstration home in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles are scheduled
Contact: (323) 662-5207
ecohome@pacbell.net
Reservations in advance required.


-- Fridays Critical Mass is a spontanious public gathering of bicyclists who use the power of numbers to advocate safe and sensible bicycle use of the roads we share. Check you locality for upcoming rides and locations
http://midnightridazz.com/ or http://www.cicle.org or http://bikeboom.com


LAPG WIKI SPACE   :   http://lapcguild.wikispaces.com

ARASHI : https://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/lapg

BLOGS

-- http://permaculturecafe.blogspot.com/

-- http://permaculturetokyo.blogspot.com/

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WISER EARTH Profile : http://www.wiserearth.org/organization/view/625ef7965dec0b50f16a19ec91d1f79a#

SO. CAL PERM ORGS
Los Angeles:
- Earthflow http://www.earthflow.com/  -  Larry Santoyo santoyo@earthflow.com 805-459-0452
- LA Permaculture Guild: Camille Cimino camcim@yahoo.com Joan Stevens 323-630-4673 mamabotanica@sbcglobal.net .

Points north:
- Ojai Permaculture Guild: Dave White david@ojaicra.org 805-646-9809
- Santa Barbara Permaculture Network: Margie Bushman sbpcnet@silcom.com 805-962-2571 www.sbpermaculture.org
- Sierra PC Guild, Paul Racko paul@sierrapermaculture.org
http://sierrapermaculture.org

Points south:
- PC Institute of Southern California (Laguna Beach): Bill Roley DrRoley@cox.net 949-494-5843
- San Diego Permaculture Center: San Diego Economic Conversion Council sdecc@igc.org (619)
255-6111 (new one)

STAY IN TOUCH:
- Los Angeles PC Guild e-list -- https://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/lapg
- South CA PC Guild e-list -- https://www.arashi.com/mailman/listinfo.cgi/scpg
- LACity Repair e-list -- http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/cityrepairla
- LA PC Guild on Tribe -- http://lapcguild.tribe.net
- LA Mytological Society -- http://www.lamushrooms.org

LINKS

Permaculture Activist Magazine : www.permacultureactivist.net
Permaculture Credit Union : www.pcuonline.org
Hopedance Magazine : www.hopedance.org
Urban Permaculture Guild : http://www.urbanpermacultureguild.org/
LA Permaculture Guild website : http://www.lapcguild.wikispaces.com/
LA EcoVillage: http://urbansoil.net/wiki.cgi
EcoVillage / Permaculture places : http://www.ecologycenter.org/directory/results.php?sFAQ=permaculture
Sustainble World Radio Podcasts : http://www.sustainableworldradio.com/


 FARMERS MARKETS OF SOUTHERN CA

http://www.farmernet.com/events/cfms

BOOK LISTS OF INTEREST

http://www.users.bigpond.com/brookman/books.html

http://www.pdxpermaculture.org/books.htm

http://www.patternliteracy.com/reading.html

FREE E BOOKS

http://www.holmgren.com.au/

http://www.rainbowbody.net/Finalempire/index.html

http://farmerbarter.googlepages.com/foodbook



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